• New Jerseyans Say Fix It First, Add Transit

    In a Quinnipiac College poll released this week, registered NJ voters aired their views on state transportation priorities. A big majority came out in favor of public transit and m...

  • MTA Finance Bomb Ticking LIRR's Summer of Woe Spotlights Transit's Straits

    The need for a new source of revenue to continue reconstruction of the downstate NY transit system will pose hard questions for state leaders when the MTA's current capital program expires at th...

  • Recovering the Costs of Gridlock

    In MTR #183 , we discussed East River bridge tolls at some length. Below we present estimates of net revenues for a variety of toll scenarios for New York City's free bridges to Manhattan. ...

  • The Drive-only Railroad

    "Mystic Pointe," a condo development in Ossining, advertises itself as "the easy commute" because it operates its own shuttle service to the nearby Croton-Harmon Metro-North Rai...

  • What to do with the Highway to Nowhere? Two Views

    In a meeting and Sheridan Expressway site visit organized this week by the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council, State transportation planners, community and elected leaders and transporta...

  • Carpool Group in the Works for Staten Island

    Last week a group of stakeholders, coordinated by the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council, convened to develop a plan for forming a "transportation management association," or rideshar...

  • City Routes, City Rights

    In June, New England's Conservation Law Foundation released City Routes, City Rights: Building Livable Neighborhoods and Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation. The 80-page book is ...

  • Around the Region: Car-Free Park ?

    Ü Brooklyn Community Board Six says it supports closing Prospect Park to traffic for a two month test period next spring. In Jul...

  • Around the Region: Raritan Valley Line Improvements

    Ü Work is taking place at almost all NJ Transit Raritan Valley line stations, including Newark Penn Station, where pedestrian circulatio...

  • Around the Region: Rail Service Impacts

    Ü Though there has been much talk about NJ Transit's Midtown Direct Morris & Essex line boosting property values along the line, the...